Mitigating the Effects of Cyber Attacks and Human Control in an Autonomous Intersection
Abstract
Widespread use of fully autonomous vehicles is near. The desire for a human to maintain control, even if limited, of a vehicle will likely never fully subside. Protocols to safely and efficiently manage reservation-based intersections with a mixture of fully autonomous, semi-autonomous, and non-autonomous vehicles exist. Missing from these protocols is persistent human control of semi-autonomous vehicles in approaching and navigating autonomous intersections without the use of traditional signals. This paper attempts to lay the foundation for the necessary extensions required for human control in semi-autonomous vehicles. Desired is a protocol that maintains the benefits in efficiency of a fully autonomous environment, such as AIM, while allowing persistent human control of a vehicle. The AFTR Burner three-dimensional virtual world offers the ability to model this physics based synthetic environment in a highly predictable and realistic manner. The preliminary observations suggest that persistent human control is a possibility among reservation-based autonomous intersections, but further research must be done to determine its viability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 23, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1055973
Entities
People
- Karl C Bentjen
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology